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  <div class="section" id="folders">
<h1>Folders<a class="headerlink" href="#folders" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="linking-a-folder-to-an-asset">
<h2>Linking a folder to an asset<a class="headerlink" href="#linking-a-folder-to-an-asset" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In order to access the asset for the image in the folder, you need to
link the folder to the asset. You can do that by issuing a POST request
in the following format:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">POST</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">uuid</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">uuid</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">folders</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">folder</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">uuid</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">assets</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">assets_id</span><span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>where <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{folder-uuid}</span></code> is the UUID of the folder, and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">{assets-uuid}</span></code>
is the UUID of the assets entity.</p>
<p>Here’s how you could link the folder and the asset you created for the
my-image.jpg image:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>POST https://api.usergrid.com/my-org/my-app/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets/9501cda1-2d21-11e2-b4c6-02e81ac5a17b
</pre></div>
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<p>In the response, you should see the assets entity for the image added to
the folder:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>{
  &quot;action&quot;: &quot;post&quot;,
  &quot;application&quot;: &quot;3400ba10-cd0c-11e1-bcf7-12313d1c4491&quot;,
  &quot;params&quot;: {},
  &quot;path&quot;: &quot;/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets&quot;,
  &quot;uri&quot;: &quot;https://api.usergrid.com/my-org/my-app/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets&quot;,
  &quot;entities&quot;: [
    {
      &quot;uuid&quot;: &quot;9501cda1-2d21-11e2-b4c6-02e81ac5a17b&quot;,
      &quot;type&quot;: &quot;asset&quot;,
      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;my-image.jpg&quot;,
      &quot;created&quot;: 1352763303163,
      &quot;modified&quot;: 1352763303163,
      &quot;metadata&quot;: {
        &quot;path&quot;: &quot;/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets/9501cda1-2d21-11e2-b4c6-02e81ac5a17b&quot;
      },
      &quot;owner&quot;: &quot;5c0c1789-d503-11e1-b36a-12313b01d5c1&quot;,
      &quot;path&quot;: &quot;/myassets/asset1&quot;
    }
  ],
  &quot;timestamp&quot;: 1352830448045,
  &quot;duration&quot;: 54,
  &quot;organization&quot;: &quot;my-org”,
  &quot;applicationName&quot;: &quot;my-app&quot;
}
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="retrieve-list-of-folder-assets">
<h2>Retrieve list of folder assets<a class="headerlink" href="#retrieve-list-of-folder-assets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>You can also request a list of the linked contents of the folder like
this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>GET https://api.usergrid.com/my-org/my-app/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets
</pre></div>
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<p>The response should look something like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;action&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;get&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;application&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;3400ba10-cd0c-11e1-bcf7-12313d1c4491&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;params&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;_&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;1352830364891&quot;</span>
    <span class="p">]</span>
  <span class="p">},</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;path&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;uri&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;https://api.usergrid.com/my-org/my-app/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;entities&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span>
    <span class="p">{</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;uuid&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;7bf47435-2ac8-11e2-b4c6-02e81ac5a17b&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;type&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;asset&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;name&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;my-image.jpg&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;created&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1352505133598</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;modified&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1352507245108</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;checksum&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;8e0cd3866ee20746c99e9a9825f38ad8&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;content-length&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">11853</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;content-type&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;image/jpeg&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;etag&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="se">\&quot;</span><span class="s">8e0cd3866ee20746c99e9a9825f38ad8</span><span class="se">\&quot;</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;metadata&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="s">&quot;connecting&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
          <span class="s">&quot;assets&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets/7bf47435-2ac8-11e2-b4c6-02e81ac5a17b/connecting/assets&quot;</span>
        <span class="p">},</span>
        <span class="s">&quot;connection&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;assets&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="s">&quot;path&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;/folders/6640a601-2ac6-11e2-92c3-02e81ae640dc/assets/7bf47435-2ac8-11e2-b4c6-02e81ac5a17b&quot;</span>
      <span class="p">},</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;owner&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;5c0c1789-d503-11e1-b36a-12313b01d5c1&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;path&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;my-image&quot;</span>
    <span class="p">}</span>
  <span class="p">],</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;timestamp&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1352830363797</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;duration&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">57</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;organization&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;my-org&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;applicationName&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;my-app&quot;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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